We have a four and a half acre smallholding on the Cotes d'Armor/Morbihan border, about halfway between Pontivy and Rostrenen. The land is very fertile, well draining and has been run organically for at least the last six years.
Due to me having a major life-saving operation last year, my wife and I can no longer farm this land the way it should be. Therefore, we are offering part of our land and possibly outbuildings as Landshare. In the past, we have had pigs, a small flock of sheep, have raised most fowl from table and laying chickens to turkeys, geese and guineafowl; at one point we even had quite a few rare breed chickens. However, since my operation, we have got rid of all our larger livestock and now just have half a dozen geese, ten ducks and two hives of bees.
The situation at the moment is that we have over a dozen cultivated vegetable plots, each measuring a metre and a half wide and up to thirty metres long. This year we have only used eight of them and the rest have been covered over to prevent weed germination. We have a fifteen metre by three metre double-doored polytunnel, a small outdoor lambing shed, a purpose-built pig house within its own double-fenced paddock, with the opportunity for plenty of free range rooting; six separate chicken houses with their own fenced run, and a traditional stone built barn, which does need a bit of work doing to it but is still usable. We have used it for raising young Christmas turkeys in the past and, at present, it houses our Bio Diesel processor. We also have a Kubota mini tractor with 1.2 metre rotavator and utility box; all of the above could be used by the sharer on agreement.
We would dearly love to see our land being used to its full potential. In the last two years, the only thing that's happened is the local farmer taking our grass for hay.
This year, he took over a dozen large bales of superb hay.
We do appreciate that this is something a little different but would be very interested in discussing any sort of sensible project apart from planting trees, as this is an extremely long term venture and would not be practical in our case.
Landshare or Rental fees to be arranged by sharer/s and us. Monies need not necessarily change hands. Duration also to be arranged but we can see (except under special circumstances) very little point in sharing for less than six months.
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